CVE-2026-25725

Claude Code Has Sandbox Escape via Persistent Configuration Injection in settings.json

State
Published
Severity
7.7 High
Published
Feb 6, 2026
Updated
Feb 6, 2026
Reserved
Feb 5, 2026

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Description

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Prior to version 2.1.2, Claude Code's bubblewrap sandboxing mechanism failed to properly protect the .claude/settings.json configuration file when it did not exist at startup. While the parent directory was mounted as writable and .claude/settings.local.json was explicitly protected with read-only constraints, settings.json was not protected if it was missing. This allowed malicious code running inside the sandbox to create this file and inject persistent hooks (such as SessionStart commands) that would execute with host privileges when Claude Code was restarted. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-501 Trust Boundary Violation
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Affected Products

ProductVersions
claude-codeanthropics
  • < 2.1.2Affected

References

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